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No one of us can eradicate malice, but reason can fight at our side so that we are not overcome by malice.
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For reason does not uproot the emotions but is their antagonist.
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Now this can be explained more clearly by the story of King David's thirst.
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David had been attacking the Philistines all day long, and together with the soldiers of his nation had slain many of them.
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Then when evening fell, he came, sweating and quite exhausted, to the royal tent, around which the whole army of our ancestors had encamped.
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